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They've been trying to make Jimmy gay in a mainstream iteration for a while now. He was originally supposed to be explicitly gay in "Superman Returns" before the backlash to that news came out - "It was a different time", so such things were pushed back hard against rather than celebrated by default - and so they danced around it (a "compromise" was having him hug a guy at the bar after the plane rescue scene and otherwise not having him display any attraction towards anyone at all). And then in the All-Star Superman animated movie they had Jimmy come to work wearing a dress and heels, and when Lois and Clark ask him if he's working undercover on a story or something he just says "Nope!" and then they just move on like nothing happened.
Making him black in some of the other media was at one point in time a compromise since making him gay was "too controversial". But now he's pretty much black by default, and race-flipping has become so cliche and standard that it isn't impactful enough on its own. So now he's gotta be black AND gay.
Same way Trevor Noah got his cushy gig despite being just plain awful. He checks all the requisite boxes on the Progressive Bingo card, and that's the single most important thing nowadays.
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